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Aussie analysts share COVID-19 investment tips

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... have an attractive dividend yield, Amir said. She recommends investors look to companies that performed well following the GFC, like software companies, packaging, consumer staples, metals and mining. She argues banks and retailers will likely outperform ...

Is it really as bad as it seems?

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... can be beneficial." Google search trends reveal that Australians have googled the term "recession" more now than during the GFC but are also searching "buy shares" at a significantly higher rate than "sell shares", which Doyle said is interesting. "In ...

Dividends could take years to return: UBS

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... UBS forecasts, market earnings per share (EPS) will not return to financial year 2019 levels until FY23. "Notably, after the GFC, it took more than a decade for EPS to recover to their prior highs due to a combination of weak earnings growth and large ...

The next big short

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... Burry argued, just as collateralised debt obligations (CDOs) and credit default swaps did to subprime mortgages prior to the GFC. "Like most bubbles, the longer it goes on, the worse the crash will be," Burry told Bloomberg. "This is very much like the ...

Chief economist update: Stimulus measures ease extreme fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
... reason for optimism. The VIX index - the fear gauge - has come down from a record high of 82.69 in March (higher than its GFC peak) to around 45.41 (lower than the Grexit peak). This could be in response to the US government's fiscal stimulus - worth ...

The great fall of China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
... government's stimulus measures would help limit the negative flow-on impact on the Australian economy - as they did during the GFC - China's deep contraction (and its trickle-down effect on the rest of the world, mainly Asia), it would not prevent this ...

ETF demand boosts gold

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020
... seen from past events. ETF Securities research shows that gold is often the counterbalance to negative equities. During the GFC gold was up 35% on equities, during the 9/11 terrorist attack it was up 22.2% against equities and during the Yom Kippur War ...

Liquid and ready: Cbus

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... case even prior to the government's Jobseeker payment announcement, he said. "Cbus paid close attention to the lessons of the GFC. We have a very robust approach to liquidity and stress testing," Atkin said. "Cbus conducted an out-of-cycle revaluation ...

A decade in the dust

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... way we invest. "One thing I am sure of is that the quarterly economic contraction will be much worse than the height of the GFC," he said. "The big difference is that the length of contraction will be much shorter with less hangover from systemic risks ...

Australia versus the world

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... build-up in non-financial corporate leverage was the clearest area of potential financial imbalance that developed in the post-GFC cycle. The programs put in place by the Fed and ECB have done little to stem the magnitude of that leverage. "Australia ...